Cassie Kozyrkov

Cassie Kozyrkov
Kozyrkov speaks at the opening day of Web Summit 2019
Born
Saint Petersburg, Russia
EducationNelson Mandela University
University of Chicago
Duke University
North Carolina State University
Known forDecision Intelligence
Scientific career
FieldsData science, AI, statistics, decision science
InstitutionsGoogle
Websitewww.kozyr.com

Cassie Kozyrkov is a South African data scientist and statistician. She worked at Google in Developer Relations team and with Decision Intelligence.[1][2][3]

Early life and education

Kozyrkov grew up in South Africa and moved to the US in her teens.[2][4] As a child, Kozyrkov became interested in data when she discovered spreadsheet software and later became interested in the relationship between information and decision-making.[promotional source?][5] She began her studies in economics and mathematical statistics at Nelson Mandela University at the age of fifteen, and transferred to the University of Chicago to complete her undergraduate degree.[citation needed] After graduation, Kozyrkov worked as a research assistant at the University of Chicago Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, then enrolled in, but did not complete, graduate studies at Duke University in psychology and cognitive neuroscience with a focus on neuroeconomics.[citation needed] Her research involved the neural processing of value and economic preferences.[citation needed]

Career

Cassie Kozyrkov during day two of Web Summit 2018

Kozyrkov joined Google as a statistician in the Research and Machine Intelligence division in 2014.[promotional source?][5] She originally worked for Google in Mountain View, before moving to New York City a few months later.[5] After two years, she joined the Office of the CTO at Google in 2016 and later to Developer Relation Team in 2017.[citation needed] Her area of focus at Google is on applied AI and data science process architecture.[6][better source needed]

Cassie Kozyrkov during the opening day of Web Summit 2019

Kozyrkov is also a technology evangelist and has been called a data science thought leader.[7] She has been a keynote speaker at large conferences [1], including Web Summit,[citation needed] the world's largest technology event.[8][9] Her writing has been featured on Harvard Business Review[10][11] and Forbes.[12]

References

  1. ^ Ciara Byrne (2018). "Why Google defined a new discipline to help humans make decisions". fastcompany.com. FastCompany.
  2. ^ a b Emma Sheppard (2019). "Google's got a chief decision scientist. Here's what she does". Wired UK. WIRED.
  3. ^ Adrian Bridgewater (2019). "Google Decision Scientist Splits AI Science, From Science Fiction". Forbes.
  4. ^ Jones, Rachyl (6 September 2023). "Google's 'decision' woman is out". Fortune. Archived from the original on 7 September 2023. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
  5. ^ a b c Shaikh, Reshama (3 October 2018). "Interview with Cassie Kozyrkov, Chief Decision Scientist at Google". mlconf.com. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
  6. ^ Decision Intelligence with Cassie Kozyrkov: GCPPodcast 128, retrieved 2 January 2024
  7. ^ "LinkedIn Top Voices 2019: Data Science & Analytics". LinkedIn. 2019.
  8. ^ "Web Summit - What is Web Summit?". Archived from the original on 6 March 2019. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  9. ^ DW - Lisbon hosts Web Summit: the Davos of the tech world
  10. ^ Kozyrkov, Cassie (2018). "What Great Data Analysts Do — and Why Every Organization Needs Them". Harvard Business Review.
  11. ^ Kozyrkov, Cassie (2019). "The First Thing Great Decision Makers Do". Harvard Business Review.
  12. ^ Kozyrkov, Cassie (2019). "Automated Inspiration". Forbes.
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